Engaging contemporary culture from a biblical worldview.
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60032 Artificial intelligence has moved from science fiction into daily reality with a speed that has caught much of the world off guard. Language models that can write essays, generate code, compose music, and hold extended conversations; image generators that produce photorealistic pictures from text descriptions; autonomous systems that make decisions with real-world consequences;…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60033 The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life has raised a practical question for many Christians: is it right to use AI? Some believers are uneasy about it, sensing that there is something problematic about relying on machines for tasks that seem to require human thought, creativity, or even spiritual discernment. Others…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60031 Environmentalism has become one of the defining concerns of contemporary Western culture. Climate change, pollution, deforestation, species extinction, and the broader question of humanity’s relationship with the natural world now dominate political discourse, educational curricula, and public consciousness. For the Christian, the question is not whether the earth matters — it plainly does…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60038 The claim that Christianity causes trauma has become increasingly common in contemporary culture. Individuals describe their experiences of growing up in Christian homes or churches as psychologically damaging — characterised by shame, fear, repression, guilt, and the suppression of their authentic selves. The “religious trauma” category has gained traction in therapeutic settings and…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60034 The concept of “systemic racism” has become one of the most prominent and contested ideas in contemporary Western culture. It is the claim that racism is not primarily a matter of individual prejudice but is embedded in the structures, institutions, laws, and systems of society — operating independently of the intentions of the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60035 The term “social gospel” has a long history in Christian thought, originating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a movement that sought to apply Christian ethics to social problems — poverty, inequality, labour exploitation, and public health. In its contemporary form, it manifests as a Christianity that prioritises social justice,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60030 Racism is one of the most persistent and painful realities of human history. From ancient tribal hostilities to the transatlantic slave trade, from apartheid to ongoing ethnic tensions across the globe, the hatred of one group by another on the basis of ethnicity or skin colour has caused immeasurable suffering. The question for…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60045 The term “woke” has undergone a rapid transformation in public usage. Originally emerging from African American vernacular to describe heightened awareness of racial injustice, it has expanded into a comprehensive cultural posture encompassing race, gender, sexuality, economic inequality, and a range of other social concerns. For Christians, the question is not whether awareness…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60046 To observers outside the United States, and to many American believers themselves, a particular strain of American evangelicalism has become closely identified with political positions on firearms and immigration that appear to be held with the same intensity as core doctrinal convictions. The phenomenon raises a legitimate question: when Christians invest as much…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60044 Intersectionality has moved rapidly from academic theory to mainstream cultural framework, and it now shapes public discourse on justice, identity, and power in ways that affect the church directly. Originally a tool for analysing how overlapping categories of disadvantage compound one another, it has developed into something considerably broader: a comprehensive worldview with…